Man 'killed his girlfriend's Pomeranian dog and then beat her with the dead animal'

A 27-year-old man from Georgia has been arrested for brutally killing his girlfriend's Pomeranian dog and then using the dead animal's body as a club to beat her with.

After repeatedly kicking Cooper the dog and breaking the tragic pooches neck, Emmanuel Alfredo Tadeo turned the corpse into a weapon as he battered his 40-year-old girlfriend, Andrea Armintrout.

Arrested on battery and animal cruelty charges, Sandy Springs police took Tadeo into custody in the Fulton Country Jail as he waits trial for the felonies.

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Emmanuel Alfredo Tadeo is accused of killing his girlfriend's Pomeranian dog and then using it as a club

'The defendant in this case had taken the dog outside and was kicking their dog - a Pomeranian - and the victim picked the dog back up and took it in,' said Sandy Springs Police Captain Steve Rose to MyFox Atlanta

'The man followed her in, took the dog back and literally kicked the dog to death.'